guidelines for electrical safety
Safety rules and procedures should be covered during lessons and repeated just before going to the shop for work, during shop\labs safety ruled should be repeated over and over again.
Mark,
Throughout this thread you should find examples of how others are helping students learn about safety, electrical or general.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
I agree, I talk about safety all the time because most of our students are at the age where they think they are invincible and nothing will ever happen to them. I try to keep it light hearted but help them understand what can happen if they choose not to work safely.
Anthony,
What are the best methods to teach safety in a meaningful way?
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
I agree with all that has been stated. Electrical safety as well as other lab safety guidline are very important to not only the Student, but also to the Instructor and the course. Continually revisting the guideline is a must. Each lab should be covered with as much detail as possible and this includes the safety requirements.I emphisis to my students that violation of the electrical safety guidelines or any guideline could xcause permanent damage or death.
Along with instructions in the class room all electrical equipment operation should be demonstrated so that the students have good working knowledge of all equipment that they will be using.
Thomas,
Thank you for your post. I wonder how frequent student accidents occur.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
jason,
Training aids can prepare the student for the real work on the trucks.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
I found the threshholds for injury from electrical current in this lesson to very interesting,and used it in class today to show how little amount of current can cause personal injury. The class was very receptive to the information, and hopefully, will treat electricity with more respect.
And you need to couple the emphasis on safety WITH an emphasis on professionalism and link it to their soon to be everyday lives and careers.
Telling them usually isn't enough to get it to sink in. They must make the connection between the class/lab environment to the "real" world or else it will not stick. For us in truck pm's they can make the connection easiy enough since they are working on trucks and not just "training aids." SOmetimes I feel that the training aids create an unrealistic view of their world and as such the value of the lessons is lost.
Milton,
How do you include safety in the everyday lessons?
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
Safety. Must be reenforced almost Daily in our field,one mental lapse can cause damage to equipment and possible injury to individual or others.
The guidelines need to be posted as well as verbalized during the orientation period and emphasized whenever necessary until they become habit.
Charles,
There are those people that only seem to learn when they do not follow policy or rules.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
REpeating rules and siting real life examples will warn most people. With any group of students there will be those who do not listen oor don't care. Some it will take seeing or being the victum of an accident is the only teacher. The only way you can cope with these people is with constant showing and repeating accident warnings and safety rules. Chuck Peters
Michael,
You have probably found this personal story delivers the message to the students.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
Dean,
Thank you. This is a common theme in this thread.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
During the first day of class when we go over safety in the lab area I expand on how being safe is very important and you can get hurt real bad if everyone is not thinking safety cause it happen to me on the 1st day on a job within the first hour of work. I then share with my students how I had a car pin me to the wall when I was in my twenties as a master tech was showing me how to use the Front End Alignment machine. I was out of work for a week with only two discs damaged in my spine. I am now in my sixties and I am reminded daily of what happen that day with chronic back pain.
Safety has to be repeated for the reasons many have posted. Regardless of the how it applies. In our situation electrical is not a direct factor. Heavy weight is and the end result of an accident would be severe. Safety cannot be repeated to often for us.
William,
Are the students required to bring the procedures sheet to future labs?
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
